removing comments and author name

[Anastasia Connor]

Hi Bill,

Hope you’re well. I’m getting to the final stages of the project but can’t work out how to remove the comments option and author name from the posts.
Also, is it possible to remove words ‘Category: xxx’ at the top of the page?

Thank you!

Anastasia x

[Bill Robbins]

Hello Anastasia,

All is well here. Congratulations on nearing the end of your project. To disable commenting in WordPress you might use the Disable Comments plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-comments/). WordPress has a built-in option to disable comments on new posts, but not new and old posts so this plugins fills that gap. That closes comments everywhere.

To take out the visual leftovers of commenting, do this:

1. Go to the Appearance section in your WordPress dashboard and click on Customize.
2. Look down for the advanced section and click on it. Then choose Custom CSS.
3. In the box there, add this:

   
   #comments,
   p.post-meta {
   	display: none;
   }
   

4. Save your changes.

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To hide the page title from category archives, add this to the Custom CSS too:

body.category h1.page-title {
	display: none;
}

Have a great week,
Bill

[Anastasia Connor]

Thank you! It’s exactly what I wanted.

Ax

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